Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 April 2010 — Page 9

The Muncie Times • April 1, 2010 • Page 9

continued from page 8 ed the Nontraditional Student Associaton. She was a member of the Muncie Public Board of Directors and the PAL Club Board of Directors. Vivian was appointed to the Student Assistance Commission of Indiana and was also a cofounder of Muncie Alliance of Prevention of Substance Abuse. When Vivian Conley died, many of the people whose lives she had touched came

Roy C. Buley By Olivia Freeman

Roy Buley was bom in 1916 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He moved to Muncie when he was about 5 years old. He soon moved to

Roy C. Buley By Misa Cree There are some beauties in my world let's pray you'll never find God has reserved them, not for you but only for the

to say good-bye. The Muncie Public Library gave her recognition when the old Centennial Library was rededicated to her. This was the first time a Muncie library was named after an African American. The library was named after her because of what she did to help the community. The library waited to change the name until Black History Month. Conley was a soldier. She was strong, tenacious, coura-

geous, tough, and committed to every battle she fought. She did it even if it was the civil rights of every citizen in her community. She was a legend in her own time. Conley believed in helping others, especially children. Katie Pulver aid, “It was always her idea that the future is in the hands of the children.” It is important for the community to remember not only what she has done but to continue what she started. She was not interest-

ed in getting credit, only in getting the work done. Conley tried to communicate between whites and blacks. She was a real lady who had a great impact on Muncie. “She had a religious sensitivity and believed in a higher God who was real.” Johnson, Vivian Conley's oldest daughter said, “Conley had a lifelong commitment o learning as 'education is my baby.'.” Ritika Mehta is a fifth grader

at East Washington Academy. Her teacher is Mrs. Newnam.

Ritika Mehta

Kokomo, but later returned to Muncie to finish up grades three through 12. During high school, he became a star athlete for Central High School during their reign as state football champions in 1934. He graduated from Central High School in 1935. In 1944, Roy went into the service. After graduation, Roy attended Central State. He majored in health and physical education. He graduated from Central State in 1951. Roy became an executive director of the Madison YMCA from 1950 to 1962. He was also a board member of Muncie's chapter of the blind I would rather wear my blindness brand I have an inner light that shines upon my fellow man, I do not ask your pity, but your guiding hand I do, I hope that from my world of blindness There are ways I might help you. By Roy C. Buley I think that the Martin Luther King, Jr., Dream Team picked Roy Buley as a good choice for the Walk of

NAACP and to top it off, he served on the city's Human Relations Committee. While on the Human Relations Committee Roy decided that African Americans deserved as much right to the Tuhey Pool as anybody else did. He sat down and told Mayor Tuhey that this summer when the pool opens that he was going to take some kids there and it would be a good idea if he told the person who sold tickets to sell them tickets because they'll be out there ready to swim. That's all they wanted to do was swim. A week before the pool opened Mayor Tuhey called Fame because Roy accomplished a number of things in his life that made the community a better place. In his poem, Roy says that he has “an inner light that shines upon my fellow man..” This means that he wants people to see the goodness that is in him that helps other people. His ideas are still changing lives of people today. Roy accomplished a lot of things that not a lot of people normally would do back in those days and certainly not African-Americans. Not

Roy and asked if he was still going through with his plan. Roy answered “Yes, I'm going to be out there.” Well the mayor had already talked to the ticket seller so they would sell them tickets and he had arranged for Jack Young, chief of police, to be out there and see that no one gets hurt. Roy did a lot to help his community and he had a lot of courage to do what he did. He was appreciated by many people. Things were tough then and he was so brave to stand up and fight for what he thought was right. Later in his life, due to complications of diabetes he lost his sight. a lot of people graduated from high school in the 1930's because of the Depression, but Roy Buley did. He played football at Muncie Central. The team was undefeated and they went to the state championships. He was one of the few black players on the team. After high school, Roy went to CC Camp. After that, he was in the military and played semi-pro football. He used the money from the GI Bill to go to college. He graduated from college and got his BS in

Although he was blind, that didn't stop him from writing poems. Mostly his poems described the peace he had found with his blindness. Olivia Freeman is a fifth grader at Royerton Elementary School. Her teacher is Mrs. Christopher.

Olivia Freeman

Health and Physical Education (RE.) and then moved on to get

Later on when they left the pool there were some kids who said they were going to fight but an officer said to just go on. When he got to his car he got really angry. There was a kid on top of his 1956 Chevy. It was also the first car he'd ever owned. The kid on top had mud on his feet which made it worse. People also threw cigarette butts into his continued on page 8